I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
BOB SEGERThere was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
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Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that’s why I’ve never done a session where I don’t sing live.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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Stood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
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Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy. Workin’ on mysteries without any clues, workin’ on our night moves.
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You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don’t know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.
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Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.
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The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
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My management tells me, Don’t be optimistic, because it’s the young people’s world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you’re a classic rocker. I don’t know if you’re gonna get the play.
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I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.
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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
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